Description
Teaching heredity and genetics has never been easier. This 25-day heredity unit gives you daily plans, warm-ups, labs, lessons, activities, presentations, review games, and assessments already sequenced and ready to go.
Your students will explore how traits are inherited and expressed through engaging labs, interactive activities, and creative projects that make genetics come alive, while you save hours of prep time.
Each resource is standards-aligned and organized by day, so you’ll always know exactly what to teach and when. Daily editable lesson plans are included, making it easy to walk in and teach with confidence. This heredity unit is part of my full-year biology curriculum bundle.
Heredity Unit Topics:
- Meiosis
- Heredity
- Alleles, Genes, and Chromosomes
- Mendelian Genetics
- Punnett Squares
- Non-Mendelian (Complex) Inheritance
- Incomplete Dominance
- Codominance
- Multiple Alleles
- Polygenic Traits
- Blood Types
- Epistasis and Pleiotropy
- Sex-Linked Traits
- Pedigrees
- Heredity Review and Assessment
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Heredity Unit Includes:
- Daily Lesson Plans – 25 Days: Each day includes a editable lesson plan with your overview, agenda, pacing, materials, and a ticket out the door (with answers). You’ll also find helpful teacher tips and ideas for facilitating that day’s lesson.
- Unit Plan and Pacing Guide: This 8-page heredity unit guide gives you a complete overview of the unit with standards, pacing, and structure. It’s perfect for quick reference and pairs seamlessly with the daily lesson plans. Teach with confidence knowing exactly what to cover each day – no guesswork, just a clear roadmap from start to finish. Get a free sample of the heredity unit plan here.
- Engaging Daily Warm-Ups: Every lesson starts with a short warm-up that is phenomenon-based or reviews the previous day’s lesson. Included in the speaker notes of the presentation are the answers, along with discussion prompts and extension ideas to keep your students engaged, thinking critically, and making connections between concepts.
- PowerPoints & Google Slides Presentations with Notes: Ready-to-use, visually engaging editable slides and notes for meiosis, Mendelian genetics, and complex patterns of inheritance. Perfect for direct instruction or adapting to your own style.
- Hands-On Labs and Activities: A hands-on gummy worm meiosis lab, a class phenotype inventory activity, a creative Punnett squares “Design-a-Pet” lab, and interactive non-Mendelian inheritance stations are all included to help students explore heredity through engaging, real-world applications.
- Meaningful and Engaging Activities: Graphic organizers, reading comprehensions, worksheets, video handouts, coloring pages, and more keep students engaged and learning in a variety of ways, making this heredity unit ideal for all learning styles.
- Unit Project and Study Guide: End your unit with a comprehensive study guide and a fun review project! Students review key heredity concepts, then design a genetics-themed board game with question cards and challenges for a creative and interactive way to prepare for the test.
- Pre-Test, Quizzes, Unit Exam, and Question Bank: Includes three pre-tests and formative assessment quizzes, two versions of the final exam, and a 180+ question editable bank organized by topic to make assessment simple and flexible.
- Built-In Remediation & Sub Plans: No-prep sub plans and remediation activities are built into each topic of this unit to make differentiation simple and to keep learning on track, even when you’re out.
Why You’ll Love This Unit
Everything you need to teach heredity is organized and ready to go. From detailed lesson plans to ready-made slides and labs, you can walk into class fully prepared and confident. Get a free sample of the heredity unit plan here.
- All resources organized by day and topic
- Ready-to-use labs, slides, and activities
- Built-in warm-ups, reviews, and assessments
- Sub plans and remediation activities included
Save time, reduce stress, and keep students engaged from start to finish. Just open, teach, and watch them master heredity with confidence!
Why this bundle is a win for your sanity (and your wallet):
If you pieced these resources together one by one, you’d spend over $135. Grab the whole unit bundle, plus bonus daily lesson plans, a pacing guide, and more—for less than $2 a day and save yourself hours of prep.
Standards-Aligned
Every resource in this heredity unit is aligned and organized so you know exactly what to teach, when to teach it, and how it meets NGSS standards.
- HS-LS3-1: Ask questions to clarify relationships about the role of DNA and chromosomes in coding the instructions for characteristic traits passed from parents to offspring.
- HS-LS3-2: Make and defend a claim based on evidence that inheritable genetic variations may result from new genetic combinations through meiosis, errors during replication, or mutations caused by environmental factors.
- HS-LS3-3: Apply concepts of statistics and probability to explain the variation and distribution of expressed traits in a population.
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